IMAGINATIVE REPRESENTATION OF THE CONCEPT OF PARADISE IN THE ENGLISH AND AVAR LINGUOCULTURES

Abstract

The article examines the key position of the concept of paradise in the English and Avar linguistic cultures. Observations on the compatibility of the word “paradise” have revealed all the variety of its connotations and allowed to model its conceptual fields. It is shown that, being a key concept of the religious picture of the world, the concept of Paradise becomes an object of study not only for religious scholars and philosophers, but also for linguists. Various approaches to the consideration of this concept and its place in the linguistic picture of the world have determined its multi-aspect, as well as outlined the prospects for its further research. It is concluded that the imaginative representations of the concept of Paradise are determined by its cognitive-propositional features: locality, attribution and determinism. In the Avar conceptual sphere, the image of paradise, according to its substantive and conceptual meanings, is also the embodiment of all the best, the ideal, to which man should aspire. The most prominent such associations are represented in the paremiological picture of the world.